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• Gottfried Leibniz

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Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist

by Robert Merrihew Adams. 438 pgs.

Contributors:

   Robert Merrihew Adams

Publisher:

   Oxford University Press

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1994

Subjects:

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,--Freiherr Von,--1646-1716

	Contents
	Introduction,	3
	I.Determinism: Contingency and Identity
	1.Leibniz's Theories of Contingency,	9
	1.Leibniz's First Main Solution,	10
	2.Leibniz's Second Main Solution,	22
	3.Leibniz and Possible Worlds Semantics,	46
	4.On Leibniz's Sincerity,	50
	2.The Logic of Counterfactual Non-identity,	53
	1.Problems of Transworld Identity,	53
	2.The Conceptual Containment Theory of Truth,	57
	3.Actuality in the Conceptual Containment Theory,	63
	4.An Anti-Semantical Theory of Truth,	65
	5.Why Did Leibniz Hold the Conceptual Containment Theory?,	67
	6.Conceptual Containment and Transworld Identity,	71
	3.The Metaphysics of Counterfactual Nonidentity,	75
	1.Substance and Law,	77
	2.Substance and Miracle,	81
	3.Perception and Relations,	102
	4.Conclusions,	106
	Appendix: A Priori and A Posteriori,	109
	II.Theism: God and Being
	4.The Ens Perfectissimum,	113
	1.Absolute Qualities as "Requirements" of Things,	115
	2.Sensible Qualities, Knowledge, and Perfection,	119
	3.Is Leibniz's Conception of God Spinozistic?,	123
	5.The Ontological Argument,	135
	1.The Incomplete Proof,	136
	2.Proof of Possibility,	141
	6.Existence and Essence,	157
	1.Is Existence an Essential Quality of God?,	158
	2.Defining Existence,	164
	3.Existence Irreducible,	170
	7.The Root of Possibility,	177
	1.The Proof of the Existence of God from the Reality of Eternal Truths,	177
	2.Leibniz's Theory Examined,	184
	8.Presumption of Possibility,	192
	1.Jurisprudence and Pragmatism in Theology,	194
	2.Jurisprudence and the Logic of Probability,	198
	3.A Proof for the Presumption of Possibility,	202
	4.Presuming the Possibility of Beings as Such,	206
	5.Objections Considered,	209
	III.Idealism: Monads and Bodies
	9.Leibniz's Phenomenalism,	217
	1.Phenomena,	219
	2.Esse Is Percipi,	235
	3.Aggregates,	241
	4.The Reality of Phenomena,	255
	10.Corporeal Substance,	262
	1.Bodies and Corporeal Substances,	262
	2.The Structure of a Corporeal Substance: Alternative Interpretations,	265
	3.The Structure of a Corporeal Substance: Some Texts,	274
	4.Monadic Domination,	285
	5.Principles of Unity,	291
	11.Form and Matter in Leibniz's Middle Years,	308
	1.Form,	309
	2.Matter,	324
	3.Realism,	338
	12.Primary Matter,	341
	1.Three Senses of "Matter" in a Letter to Arnauld,	341
	2.Matter and the Eucharist,	349
	3.Bernoulli's Questions,	361
	4.The Debate about Thinking Matter,	364
	5.Conclusions,	375
	13.Primitive and Derivative Forces,	378
	1.The "Mixed" Character of Derivative Forces,	378
	2.Primary Matter and Quantity,	393
	Bibliography,	401
	Index of Leibniz Texts Cited,	411
	General Index,	423

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